Part 4


1995

my birthday.Correction-Trini's and my birthday. Our birthdays were only a few weeks apart, so we always had a joint birthday party. Not that it mattered. It was just the eight of us in elementary, and that continued into Middle school. We were turning twelve, just like everyone else in the sixth grade. But this time it was our turn. I think our parents were worried a little bit, we were after all almost teenagers.

Our parents all brought out the tents and let us sleep outside. There were four tents. No Girls in guys and no guys in the girls. I think that they trusted us, but they were just being careful. We had a fire and roasted marshmallows, Jason tried to tell this ghost story that was suppose to be scary, but it just turned out lame. Probably because we were in our back yard, but we'd start laughing and they never got finished.

"We need to have some excitement" Rocky said, and I of course I was swooning, It was so very sad.

He got this mischievous grin on his face, and I glanced towards the three other girls. We weren't liking that grin to much.
And of course Billy had to play along.

"What kind of Excitement, Rocky?" Billy looked at Rocky and he looked back at him I swear boys have telepathy. It was that moment that made me absolutely sure that they did have it. And all the boys looked at each other, and saw Rocky's grin, and they all started grinning too.


It was Jason who said it, not Rocky. truth or dare.

Us four girls panicked. Truth or dare and us four bad bad bad bad idea. Truth or dare was how crushes became revealed. So this was a Very bad Idea.

But of course we were brave. I mean it could be used to our advantage. We could discover who they liked. Oh yes Rocky's Idea was getting better by the minute.

"I go First."I spoke up, I was going to show those boys who was scared. Everyone just nodded in agreement I guess they wanted someone else to go first anyways.



I looked around our circle, faces I knew so well. I wasn't the best at dare so I was praying that whe person I would pick would choose truth. The real question was, who would pick truth, and out of them who did I really want to know about?
I looked around the circle and my gaze landed on Tommy. Quiet Tommy, who was becoming more my friend each and everyday.



That was another thing that changed in middle school. You grew a lot more closer to your group that you didn't really know or you weren't really close to before.



Before it was Trini that knew everything about me,. Next was Kat, and Billy was right there with her, and I knew Jason pretty well.



That changed that year. Trini was still my bestest friend and why wouldn't she be? But Kat Sort of faded into the background with Jason, and Tommy and Aisha popped up.



Aisha still had that Take-no-crap attitude that I sometimes envied. No one dared to mess with her because of her firecracker personality, and Trini sometimes had that spark too.



And Tommy. Tommy was always just Kat's brother to me, well most of the time. But now...now he was Tommy. Tommy, who paid attention to only me whenever I was talking and Actually heard everything I was saying.



"Tommy Truth or dare?"

He looked at me, his eyes widened, and then determined. "Truth."

Someone in heaven loved me. Now, I needed to come up with something to ask him.

Oh, Screw whoever loved me in heaven. They couldn't even be nice enough to give me something good to ask him. I looked at Trini, who was looking at me her eyes shinning. She really didn't expect me to ask him that did she?

Oh lord, she really did.

This was awful I would hated it if anyone asked me who I liked yet,when my best friend demanded something with her eyes, I had to do the deed.

Wait that sounded wrong.

She demanded I perform the task.

That sounded wrong too. Heck Screw it. You know what I mean.

"Tommy, do you like anybody?"

He didn't even look shocked, it was like the boys knew you were going to ask that question. Maybe because they were going to ask us that question. Our little devious minds.

He looked at the ground for a moment and then shook his head. Making this face, like he wasn't sure of what to say. I swear that Trini's face was turning purple. She was holding her breath, and she kept playing with her hair, I guess she was trying to look appealing, Kat, Aisha and I had to bite our bottom lips to keep from laughing.

Tommy sighed, then looked back up at me, straight in the eyes.

"I dunno" that was all he said.

What kind of an answer was that. He doesn't know? I wasn't even the one who liked him, and I was outraged with such an indirect answer, I risked looking over in Trini's direction.


I swear her right eye started to twitch, which almost made me loose the hold I had on my giggles and she had obviously started to breathe again. Because she wasn't blue anymore but red. Not red from her blushing, but red because she was mad. Her hands were clenched into fists at her side and I swear her hair it was. Frying. And I am almost sure that there was smoke coming out of her ears.



"What do you mean you DON'T KNOW??" She exploded at Tommy. I suddenly felt bad for him, I mean I have never been on the receiving end of Trini's Wrath. But I have seen it, more than once.


Tommy looked at me, then to her, not sure what he had done wrong. "I..I just don't know I might"

This seemed to calm Trini down a little bit. Because she hoped that he was thinking about her when he made that statement. The thought of that made me a little.. a...little....umm I don't know, it made me something.

Everyone was quiet now. No doubt trying to get over the shock of Trini Reacting so violently.

It's a very interesting thing, how once you hit middle school truth or dare is suddenly became much more daring, its almost as if you're trying to prove that you're growing up somehow. We moved the game into one of the tents, we were all squashed against one another, but none of us seemed to mind.


And it was just my luck that I ended up between Trini and Tommy. And I couldn't exactly move without hurting Tommy's feelings, and without drawing attention to myself. So I had to just stay where I was. Although I kept my eyes alert in case Trini decided she wanted to bite me or something. It would have been really easy for her too, they way she was all mushed up against me.

All in all the game turned out to be very revealing. In more ways than one.

Kat had never stuffed her bra, thought Billy was kind of cute and didn't really have just one best friend out of the seven of us. Billy wanted to be in a band some day and would pick me to be his sister (Why I'll never know) And has never said a cuss word before. Trini thought Rocky's hair was kinda cute (And let me just say, she is the only one) and kissed Billy's toe. Not that was just dirty...really dirty. Jason is so odd.

Jason really did think that football was a little tough and had kissed some girl at school named Emily. I'd never met her before, but Aisha was completely disgusted and most of the time I trusted Aisha's Judgment. Ish, she still played with Barbie's sometimes and she flashed everyone, Gosh I swear Jason is such a pervert. But anyways, they were pretty red the rest of the night and could not find the courage to look Ish in the eyes, those whimps.

Rocky ate grass, his biggest peeve about the four of us girls was that we took too long to brush our hair (Excuse me? At least we took time to do it at all) and he kissed me on the cheek which really grossed me out, so I knew that I pretty much didn't like him anymore.


I spent a good amount of my childhood obsessed with his hair.

Tommy liked having a sister, he had never kissed a girl, and the game ended before Jason could give him his dare, which I know would have been having Tommy kissing someone.

I never had a crush on Jason (Billy thought I did don't even ask me why.) and everyone got glimpse of my stylish and new pink silk underwear. Boys are strange I mean its just underwear!

Our Parents came out and broke up the game, telling us it was time for is to get to sleep. And they stayed outside to make sure that none of the girls went in the boys tents and Vise Versa. Like we couldn't have don't that when they were gone, but we didn't.

I think the most interesting part of the night was that every crush that one of us girls had was revealed and nothing ever came of them. So that pretty much answered our questions of if any of the feeling were mutual. The thing about middle school crushes is that once they are out in the open, they are over, its like a big secrete that you have to keep quiet about and that's what makes the crush so important. Once everyone knows its gone.

Thank god they did, could even imagine if any of the crushes came true?

I have a feeling that it'd be world war III.

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